Corona proof equipment for substitute bus transport
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Dutch Female” buttontext=”read out”] It is not only work on and around the track and sudden blockages that traditionally mean a special balancing act for the use of train replacement buses. Those buses must…
Van Veldhoven moderately positive about bus transport plans
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Dutch Female” buttontext=”read out”] State Secretary Stientje van Veldhoven (I&W) responded moderately positively on Saturday morning in MAX's Good Morning Netherlands program to the plans presented by Bus Transport Netherlands (BVN) on Friday evening...
Spontaneous STIB strike confuses bus traffic
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Dutch Female” buttontext=”read out”] Several drivers did not return to work at STIB in Brussels this morning. As a result, there is no…
A day of downtime costs eight hundred euros per bus
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Dutch Female” buttontext=”read out”] The coach sector fears that almost half of the bus companies will not survive the summer of 2020. Ninety percent of the four thousand coaches are stationary. Out…
Coach sector is in danger of falling due to capital intensity
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Dutch Female” buttontext=”read out”] The coach sector is in danger of collapsing. This is due to the corona measures, combined with the capital-intensive nature of the industry. The Dutch Bus Transport Trade Association calculated that…
Walter de Wit argues for a more significant contribution to bus transport
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Dutch Female” buttontext=”read out”] In the Passenger Transport Magazine edition, attention is paid to Walter de Wit, who advocates a significantly “more significant contribution” to the private bus transport sector for a fraction of…
The turnover in the sustainable coach sector continues to rise
[responsivevoice_button voice=”Dutch Female” buttontext=”read out”] Panteia conducts an annual study, commissioned by Bus Transport Netherlands, into the size and composition of coach transport in the Netherlands. The findings are described in…
VDL Groep lost bus order to Chinese state aid company
The fact that bus builder VDL Groep lost a bus order to a Chinese company was not well received by members of the House of Representatives and public opinion at the time. The Chinese BYD…